So that's what you get when you cross Angelina Jolie with an M&M... or maybe that's some kind of flounder/M&M mutant. Feeling a little duhhhh because I still can't read the second word, Baby ___, perhaps??? Anybody? Help?

I think that last cake might say Baby Icuba... Or maybe it's supposed to be that Baby in the USA everyone else sees. Or maybe it's "Born in the USA", like the Bruce Springsteen song! Thanks to my parents for teaching me that one...

I read the comments to see what I missed when I viewed the post ;-ÞAll I got was "baby" and since one of the kids didn't put the stapler back where it belongs, I had to check the comments for enlightenment

The last one looks like those word verification boxes you get on some websites where the deformed letters are on a spotted background. Usually have to ask for a new word several times before I can see it. All I can make out on the cake is "Baby". Refresh. Refresh.

Cake #1: Clearly, the bakery does not know the meaning of "gourmet"! The other cakes look reasonable (although the one in the back is very odd). A fancily decorated wall, a half-egg spewing an M&M river, multicoloured messy squirts, all on a white ground (although the label says "chocolate frosting"!) with a cup of white frosting and a pen in front?! But, at least the M&Ms will be good!

2nd one: hey, it's better than most of the cake decorations we see here... and this is one frosting that's actually delicious

I agree with the comment that the Baby in the USA looks like the stupid word verification boxes... thank goodness the WV on this blog are actually legible! I had to stare at that stupid cake for a good minute before getting anything past Baby. I got USA next and then just stared at the middle... confused...

WV: retop - if you don't like how your cake turned out, just retop it with M&M's!

Everyone's so obsessed about "Baby in the USA" that no one noticed the second cake says "Happy Bithday." Seems like there might have been an "r" in there but if there is it's covered by the voluminous amount of candy.

The first one has me perplexed. What is it supposed to be? I see a sea-shell covered toilet tank attached to either a reeeaaallly long toilet bowl or a bed. I see a party hat or cup with M&Ms spewing from it. Either ribbon or fake hair from the toilet tank to the party hat. Could there be a Rapunzel doll around somewhere? Is that candle-wax or blood? This is "gourmet"?

Not bad. Yes they missed a spot, but would any 3 YO really care (unless that was their piece). Could mom have added a bag of M&Ms after she bought the cake?

Heck with the botox-injected lips - what is the rest of the cake? It looks like he's got a leash/whip/cord attached to something else! What is it!!!!!

At first all I saw was Baby, but after the comments, I do seeBAByIn theUSAGee. How, ummm, patriotic. I agree: it's either a magic-eye picture or some of those bizzare word verifications. And *ow* now my head hurts.

Y'know I've spent the last couple of weeks working a temp job which requires me to interpret high school students hand-written email addresses for 7 hours a day, and despite this experience I can't read that last one.

Obviously the person who lettered that last cake did not attend high school. It might be Baby In USA, or BARN in USA or something else entirely.

Gourmet? 2 pounds of M&Ms and twice as many pounds of greasy white goo apparently turns the Bakery Department at the "Piggly-Wiggly" into "The Culinary Institute of America". (=Gore? Meh.)WV: mifided: I was so mifided when I picked up my M&M cake from the bakery, and saw that the M&Ms were actually the generic, no-name candy coated cocoa-flavored waxy crap.

@ Elizabeth C.- You dumb bastard! That's not a schooner, it's a sailboat!

Anywho, as someone who has a compulsion to avoid eating blue M&Ms, I would not go anywhere near these cakes. Too many blues. bleh. Well, okay, maybe the yellow sculpture guy, but only if I can have his lady lips.

Oh thank God, I thought I was the only person alive who hated green M&Ms. Hate 'em, hate hate hate 'em. They taste horrible. To me, they're the Pepsi of the M&M world (Pepsi is tasteless to me). The green mascot is cute, though. :)

So what IS going on with that first cake? It immediately made me think "Barfing Pumpkin" -- just google, there are lots of them like this http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs20/f/2007/297/2/0/Barfing_Pumpkin_by_Jiyae.jpg

I love M & M's as much as anyone but why would you put so many on what looks like a 3rd birthday cake? Sheesh unless that kid is made of m and m's I don't think people will appreciate trying to not break teeth on them lol.

I'm having flashbacks to my little sister's 4th birthday cake: chocolate with chocolate frosting and (you guessed it) M&Ms. That was when we discovered just how sensitive to sugar and chocolate she was: one slice and she was tearing around at warp speed for nearly an hour. The only upside was that cake looked better than these, and my mom is not a professional baker.

Okay, so skimmed comments and I think no one else has noticed that the yellow standing M&M is cutting a black of cheese. I now want to add that I think it deserves some extra points for that. Or maybe fewer points, that detract from the fact that is it recognizable and standing... because who wants to eat at cake that is suggesting cutting the cheese. Either this cake recipient is a cheese specialist who goes by the same nick name as the rapper, or he is a fan of the candy with gas.

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